I'm guessing that when the front garden, here, was first established, native plants were all the rage.
As a result, there are a handful of wattle trees that are now starting to show their age, ha ha...
The trouble with wattles is that as they age, the borers get into them and turn their insides into sawdust.
All it takes, from there, is a decent gust of wind, or an enthusiastic bird landing on the now dead tree, and down it comes...
The wattle in question, rather than growing a central trunk, and branches from there, split in four, early on, and grew, in effect, four trunks...
That's a lot of dead branches to tidy up... ha ha...
To give you an idea, I half filled the green bin with twigs and bits of wood....
Am I glad that when Aldi had loppers on sale, I thought to myself "Yeah, that looks like it could come in handy..."?
You're damned right, I am, ha ha...
Secateurs are good, but tedious if you're trying to cut through something more than about a centimetre thick.
Loppers, on the other hand make short work of pretty much anything, ha ha...
So now I've got a neatly trimmed fifteen, or so, foot long trunk/branch to play with...
Hopefully, the borers haven't gotten into it too far, or weakened it, as I can see it being trimmed to suit and turned into bridges for birds, ha ha...
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Carve a pumpkin for Halloween?
Sure, that sounds easy...
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It's a shame that second hand bookshops are becoming a rarity.
I used to find the most interesting titles when browsing... ha ha...
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